The legislation approved in Congress on Tuesday renews an earthquake preparedness bill that originally passed 40 years ago. The most recent version of the legislation expired nearly 10 years ago.
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Tsunami warning: what’s important, and what’s crucial
The Trump administration has proposed significant cuts to the tsunami warning system, which includes all funding for dozens of sophisticated data buoys.
Magnitude 7.9 earthquake was an intriguing one for seismologists
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake early Tuesday is what is known as a strike-slip, or when two large blocks move side-to-side instead of up-and-down. That, and it’s distance from shore may explain why tsunami waves were so small.
Years of budget cuts hamper monitoring of Alaska earthquakes, including Monday’s
The Alaska Earthquake Center has suspended most field maintenance of the state’s 150 seismic monitoring stations. Forty stations are currently offline.
Seismologists count over 100 aftershocks since morning earthquakes
A seismologist says the biggest aftershock recorded so far was a magnitude 4.7. She says the aftershocks won’t travel as wide an area as the earthquakes that triggered them, but Southeast communities could still feel them.
Early morning Earthquake shakes up Southeast Alaska, Yukon
A major earthquake rocked Southeast Alaska and an area of the Yukon on Monday morning. The magnitude 6.2 shaker hit at 4:30 a.m. and was centered near the Haines Highway about 55 miles northwest of Skagway.
Months later, earthquake ‘swarm’ continues in Port Heiden
“You can think of it as like a little cluster of earthquakes that, added together, might be sort of equivalent to a single, larger earthquake,” says seismologist Michael West.
Are Southeast Alaska’s recent earthquakes connected?
State Seismologist Michael West with the Alaska Earthquake Information Center says it’s unclear if the seismic events are related
Earthquakes swarm the Brooks Range
An “earthquake swarm” is hitting the Brooks Range. Seismologists do not know why it is occurring or if it will continue.
Minto Flats: The home of hidden faults
Four scientists embarked on a trip to install a dozen sensitive ground-motion detectors in what they call the Minto Flats seismic zone.